A pair of young Indian men sit on horseback in front of the Bureau Hotel in downtown Okanogan. Two children run across the dirt-street in the background; to the right, a group of men dismount from their horses. The photograph is labeled "70". ...

Two indians on horseback stop to pose for a picture near T Street. In the background you can see the Bureau Hotel, still in construction and owned by Captain Charles Bureau. To the left is another group of men on horses. They are stopped underneath...

The Okanogan Baseball Team is seen in action as it plays the Colville Indians living at the Mission, near Omak Lake. Run since 1886 by Catholic priest, Fr. Etienne DeRouge, the Mission operated a post office, church and a junior college--complete...

Standing outside a cabin, a group of Okanogan Indians pose for a portrait. The man on the left is Twit-mich, or "Big Jim". The next man beside Twit-mich is unidentified. To his right is Charley Leo, a local rancher. Beside him is Suzanne Leo, a...

A man in full, feathered headdress poses in costume identical to one wore by Chief Koxit George of the Moses band in a similar Matsura picture. He even holds a feather or plume in the same manner as did Koxit George in his original photo. George...

The Mission, near Omak Lake, began in 1886 under the direction of Father E. DeRouge for the Okanogan and Colville Indians. St. Mary's Mission also held a post office, junior college (with dormitories and a baseball team) and a church. The...

St. Mary's Mission, located near Omak Lake--lying to the east and in between Okanogan and Omak--held a school and Catholic Church for Indians on the Colville Indian Reservation. Some Catholic townsfolk also sent their children to the school. The...

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